The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.

What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency

This paper argues that fully autonomous AI agents should not be developed. In support of this position, we build from prior scientific literature and current product marketing to delineate different A...

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Yesterday, the San Francisco Police Department announced that they’re restricting outside access to data from Flock license plate reader cameras.

Bogus case studies on UBS and transit systems exaggerated adoption of the technology

A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area, with confirmed casu...

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Magnifica Humanitas, annotated with AI-ethics research

Enter a DNA string and the Carbon model can continue the sequence, score genetic variants, or predict the protein’s 3‑D structure. You can also explore gene‑embedding visualisations and see the ful...

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A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stab...

They built it. They're scared of it. They're selling it anyway.

Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amadei says he can’t rule out that its chatbot, Claude, is conscious. A Google engineer is sure he once built a sentient being. Holly Baxter speaks to the experts about whether o...

The Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 pod is coming to New York for our first LIVE show! We’ll be at Starr Bar in Brooklyn on April 30.

Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP

Prof. Emily M. Bender and Dr. Alex Hanna will discuss their new book, The AI Con.

A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI

The proposed rules would require prominent "digital human" labels on all virtual human content and prohibit digital humans from providing "virtual intimate relationships" to those under 18.

Children deserve to be protected as robustly as possible — and that requires tools we can actually understand, writes a team of experts.

Children deserve to be protected as robustly as possible — and that requires tools we can actually understand, writes a team of experts.